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I just need to …
I have always been an advocate for continuous learning, setting goals, having ambitions and working hard to accomplish my dreams, as we all should have dreams to work towards, no matter how big or small. However, over the last few years I have been more receptive to asking, why? What need in me am I trying to fulfil and is this just a temporary fix before moving on to something new to curb my need?
By Lucy Joanna6 years ago in Motivation
Giving not asking
Winter, a time where it's amazing when you're warm and cold when you ain't. It's the time where most of the people get a chance to get together. It becomes a reason why people eager for gatherings and others for food. Having no bumps in our paths, always put our heart onto comfy treasures. No sacrifice, no care, no lively aspect of life and nothing. Treasure is something we know as a precious things but it's our heart , which's treasurer than all. The worldly treasure can be found in one place but our heart can be in many places.
By Ermi messi6 years ago in Motivation
The Sound of Silence: You Need to Talk Less
“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.” ― Woody Allen We are too used to talking. Anywhere I go, I see an endless chatter about any topic. Most of the time the only thing I hear are completely uninformed opinions, generalizations, and unneeded drama.
By JM Miana6 years ago in Motivation
Perfectly Imperfect
What are these pesky emotions good for anyway? Emotions help us in so many ways. They help us enjoy life, they help us process trauma, they allow us to discover our boundaries and, in the process, understand ourselves on a deeper level. Allowing ourselves to feel both pleasant and uncomfortable emotions give us the full spectrum of the human experience.
By Laura Carlock6 years ago in Motivation
Why COVID 19 is causing procrastination
COVID 19 has caused the world to go into complete chaos. At the start of the pandemic there were some skeptics (I was one) some who took COVID 19 as a joke, and some who found the need to use COVID 19 as an excuse. COVID 19 became an excuse for anything. "I need toilet paper because soon I'm not going to be able to go to a store and I will do anything to get it." This mentality caused human beings to hurt one another. "I got laid off from my job, so now I'm on vacation." While both examples are different, they are both harmful. So, why is COVID causing us to be lazy, or procrastinate and how do we stop the cycle?
By Marissa Hall6 years ago in Motivation
Getting accustomed to negativity is not a good idea.
Let’s take a minute to imagine what Buddha would say if he saw today’s world. Would he be proud or disappointed of humanity’s growth? In my opinion, latter one is slightly more likely. Did we really improve as humanity? Perhaps, in some ways we improved tremendously such as, technologically, scientifically, economically and etc. But, did we manage to get better in more subtle ways such as, spiritually and psychologically. It doesn’t seem so. We are being selfish. We are being selfish to a degree that it becomes new normal. Betrayal becomes normal, dishonesty becomes normal and hatred becomes normal. We suppose it is the way it is. How many times we were surprized when we found ourselves truly being happy, joyful, content and satisfied? Even though, all these feelings are really constructive and positive, we feel alienated toward these feelings. Because, we rarely experience this kind of feelings. We all suggest to our children that bitterness, rather than happiness, is a form of knowledge. I ask myself, if this is true? If we really get right what we are and why did we choose to become this way? It has always been thought that people who have been around the longest in the world are the ones having the most wisdom. So I set out to ask myself. What is wisdom? I came to conclusion that wisdom is the ability to understand what can and can’t be changed. It is the ability to know reality best we can. And, most of us are very far from that. Ten thousand years ago, we were still on the wheel of life. How many changes have we actually been through yet? It is almost seems we are going back to square one. In retrospect, Buddha would never judge us for our ignorance. He, just like any human being would understand how it is needless to blame anyone or anything. People are what they are. In the same time, he would think that it is more useful to have more insight into our ignorance. And, then, become aware, how we are contributing to bring change into our society.
By Nuran Mammadov6 years ago in Motivation
Where It All Went Sideways!
Ever wonder where you might be if you had made one choice in your life differently? If you're like me then you've probably thought that many, many, many times. Now don't get me wrong my life was never completely terrible, but neither is it where I pictured myself in this part of my life. How did I get to where I am today, you might ask? Choices, plain and simple, nothing to dramatic or life changing, just choices. Things everyone, everywhere are forced to deal with and they all lead to either beneficial or detrimental consequences later on in life.
By tehmoosespoon6 years ago in Motivation
A Fresh Start
2020 threw everything that it had at me. I lost my grandfather, not blood but I've known him my whole life, July 9th and I lost my father August 6th. My dad was a New York Firefighter/paramedic for the town of Newburgh, an hour east of Manhattan, for 20 years. He retired in the early nineties, but still lost friends in the towers on 9/11. My granddad served in Vietnam and took part in the nuclear tests. It ended up changing his blood type, I assume from radiation poisoning. He was a fantastic story teller and one of the greatest men that I’ve ever had the honor of meeting. Losing those two men really threw a wrench in my life and without question knocked me down to my knees. I went into a deep dark depression and it's taken six months for me to finally feel relatively good again. I've lost a hundred pounds going from 365 to 265, since July of last year. Although most was a healthy loss, at first it was because I struggled to eat after my dad passed away. He was easily my best friend and confidant so the loss was extremely hard on me.
By Cody DeWeever6 years ago in Motivation
